A creation of cold war paranoia, Captain Atom is quite literally a walking A-bomb. Able to absorb and control energy in all it's forms, Atom's only problem is that he sometimes has too much energy and nowhere to stick it, often resulting in cataclysmic self-detonations. Despite the planetary scale of his power, he is often plagued by personal issues, such as the murder of his wife (for which he was framed). As a result, he is often misrepresented as a loose cannon or muscle for hire, when in reality he is simply trying to distance his professional relationships from his personal ones.